Diptych of an elderly couple

The Diptych of an elderly couple is a pair of bust-length wedding portraits by Hans Memling, which were formerly attached with pegs and were split some time before they were sold separately in 1894.

The paintings were sold from the collection of F. Meazza of Milan at the sale in April 1894.

[2] The Bode Museum purchased the male half, where it was later seen by William Henry James Weale, who included it in his 1901 Memling catalog: Another early portrait is in the Berlin Gallery, the bust of a man about seventy years of age, turned to the left, his hand resting on a parapet.

In the background are meadows and trees; on the left, a castle with a crenelated bridge; a cavalier is watering his horse at the stream, which flows past it into a wide river.

[3] The female half was purchased by Leo Nardus and eventually sold by F. Kleinberger to the Louvre in 1908.